![]() ![]() This sets Bobis apart from many other Filipino women authors, who have tended to write in only one language: English or their mother tongue. ![]() She writes in Bikol, Filipino and English, demonstrating what the critic Dolores Herrero has described as a ‘defiant willingness’ to engage with her ‘rich bicultural heritage’. An award-winning transnational, cross-disciplinary writer and scholar, Bobis is the author of prose fiction and poetry, academic discourse, and dramatic works for radio and stage. ‘Transcendent’ as a choice of adjective risks sounding rapturous or breathless, but speaks to the visionary and startling qualities of the work of this Filipino-Australian author, as well as her work’s range. ![]() Merlinda Bobis is a writer whose work transcends. ![]()
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